Old [Movies] Are Best

Bogart

Old movies are better than new ones. Especially when they're black and white, obviously superior to new-fangled colorised moving pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWaqUVac3M

Look at these guys. In a new movie they'd probably blow up the ferris wheel halfway through to distract you or something. Old movies are great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21h0G_gU9Tw

New movies are only good when they pretend to be old movies, like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4uXfnH2aA

Here is another beautiful old movie about a lumberjack I guess and a man in a coat and hat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBiewQrpBBA

Discuss movies. Old ones for preference, but new ones if you absolutely must.

Quid

I do not care for older movies.

Give me the frenetic pace of modern cinema every time.

Mojo_Jojo

At the weekend I watched the cinematic masterpiece known as The Vault

Some people try to rob a bank but it turns out to be haunted!

It's not actually a comedy. It's not really a horror either. Or a clever heist film. It's a nothing

The best part is that they set up a plotline right at the start and then forget about it

The detective who happens to be in the area and the resident police officer are clearly in cahoots and ensure that they lock the bank doors as he exits.
But then the writers forgot they'd done that and sort of drop the detective character altogether and the police man ends up never acting on what appeared to be his own attempt at a bank robbery

A+ out of ten thumbs up

Bogart

Quid wrote: »

I do not care for older movies.

Give me the frenetic pace of modern cinema every time.

Michael Bay apologist located.

Quid

Bogart wrote: »

Quid wrote: »

I do not care for older movies.

Give me the frenetic pace of modern cinema every time.

Michael Bay apologist located.

I’ll see your Michael Bay and raise you a Jules White.

Bogart

Quid wrote: »

I’ll see your Michael Bay and raise you a Jules White.

The Three Stooges guy? I will take an old Three Stooges movie over the recent, modern Three Stooges movie. Most of the old ones were only like 20 minutes long!

Bogart

EDITORS NOTE: I have never actually seen an entire old three stooges movie. I assume it's twenty minutes of nyuk nyuk nyuk and woob woob woob and kicking people in the pants.

Coinage

There's also Nazis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZOQ-Gdml_c

Quid

Bogart wrote: »

EDITORS NOTE: I have never actually seen an entire old three stooges movie. I assume it's twenty minutes of nyuk nyuk nyuk and woob woob woob and kicking people in the pants.

Depends on the director. White was the one who tried to keep it cartoonish and relied heavily on violent slapstick. He’d later be known for just rehashing both plots and footage over and over. Bernds was known for their better material.

Quid

BAMBOOZLED IN TO TALKING ABOUT OLD MOVIES

klemming

The oldest movie I've seen is Duck Soup.
It was good.

nexuscrawler

nexuscrawler

has there ever been a more expressive physical actor than Buster Keaton?

Bogart

I guess the oldest movies I've seen all the way through are silent comedies from the likes of Keaton, Chaplin or Harold Lloyd.

There was a thing a few years ago where a live orchestra would tour the country doing a specially written score for old silent movies and play the movie while they played live. Stuff like City Lights, or The General. Some of the most enjoyable cinema experiences I've had.

We also saw a showing of Under the Skin with a live score as well, and THX with a new score by the Asian Dub Foundation, which was terrific.

Solar

I like modern filmmaking way more, but there is a certain habit that big franchise Disney movies have of being hideously poorly paced that I have grown to really hate of recent years.

Guardians, Age of Ultron and TLJ were the worst for it I think.

Astaereth

On Body and Soul, one of the Oscar nominated foreign films this year, is on Netflix, and it is a nice, quiet romance between two flawed human beings, with a touch of magical realism. I liked it quite a bit.

Irond Will

nexuscrawler wrote: »

has there ever been a more expressive physical actor than Buster Keaton?

Toshiro Mifune

nexuscrawler

Irond Will wrote: »

nexuscrawler wrote: »

has there ever been a more expressive physical actor than Buster Keaton?

Toshiro Mifune

TexiKen

Chris Farley.

DoctorArch

I just watched Scott Pilgrim for the second time after originally seeing in the theaters back when it released.

I'm more aware now of magical realism and OMG Scott Pilgrim does it so well.

Sadgasm

Old movies are fine but the pacing is way too slow for someone who has been raised on modern media. I lost interest pretty fast.

caligynefob

nexuscrawler wrote: »

has there ever been a more expressive physical actor than Buster Keaton?

Kevin James

https://youtu.be/F8Y0hCMWyFg

Bogart

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

Six

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I want to agree except I keep falling asleep halfway through the original Seven Samurai.

TexiKen

This is why 80's movies so much better, so classy. Right in the middle between old and new. Innovative, yet still practical.

ElJeffe

nexuscrawler wrote: »

has there ever been a more expressive physical actor than Buster Keaton?

Steve Martin

davidsdurions

Jackie Chan.

Irond Will

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I think of it as “babymouth for media”

Six

My favorite movie for a long time has been Lawrence of Arabia. More movies should have intermissions.

Jazz

Six wrote: »

My favorite movie for a long time has been Lawrence of Arabia. More movies should have intermissions.

And overtures. Cleopatra is another fine example of a movie with both.

Lawrence's intermission does come very late in the film, IIRC, but it's a suitable point in the story for it.

Six

Jazz wrote: »

Six wrote: »

My favorite movie for a long time has been Lawrence of Arabia. More movies should have intermissions.

And overtures. Cleopatra is another fine example of a movie with both.

Lawrence's intermission does come very late in the film, IIRC, but it's a suitable point in the story for it.

One of my best theater experiences was seeing LoA in 70mm at the Ziegfeld in nyc. If you ever have a chance to see Lawrence in 70mm, do it.

Jazz

Six wrote: »

Jazz wrote: »

Six wrote: »

My favorite movie for a long time has been Lawrence of Arabia. More movies should have intermissions.

And overtures. Cleopatra is another fine example of a movie with both.

Lawrence's intermission does come very late in the film, IIRC, but it's a suitable point in the story for it.

One of my best theater experiences was seeing LoA in 70mm at the Ziegfeld in nyc. If you ever have a chance to see Lawrence in 70mm, do it.

I absolutely will, that'd be amazing.

Ninja Snarl P

Six wrote: »

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I want to agree except I keep falling asleep halfway through the original Seven Samurai.

I know it must be inconvenient to be outed, but hello there actual Satan.

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I was born in the 80s and mostly watched what was contemporary, beyond Godzilla movies and Looney Toons. I didn't start enjoying older movies until I was in my 20s (which is about when digital media started making a lot of those older films actually accessible), and there's plenty of older films I would much prefer watching over new ones mostly because they actually gave a shit about pacing and giving things the space to breath.

But it's hard to build a lot of quality into quiet frames, and easy to dump a lot of cheap action everywhere.

Probably why I enjoyed Bladerunner 2049 so much. It's a modern film but it's set up like an old one, with a huge amount of the story presented in ways besides extended action sequences and substituting excessive dialogue for actual content. There are a couple sequences in there which I find utterly spooky because they so convincingly look like they were shot in the style of a different decade.

nexuscrawler

We saw Lost Highway on film

it was p glorious

Irond Will

Ninja Snarl P wrote: »

Six wrote: »

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I want to agree except I keep falling asleep halfway through the original Seven Samurai.

I know it must be inconvenient to be outed, but hello there actual Satan.

Bogart wrote: »

I guess lots of people never try any media older than they are. I was born in the mid seventies and can watch great movies from the 30's and 40's just fine, but I suppose I made sure my diet was a mix of new and classic stuff from early on.

I think I would have trouble empathising with someone who gets bored during, say, Casablanca. I think I would just write them off as dumb. Or perhaps evil.

I was born in the 80s and mostly watched what was contemporary, beyond Godzilla movies and Looney Toons. I didn't start enjoying older movies until I was in my 20s (which is about when digital media started making a lot of those older films actually accessible), and there's plenty of older films I would much prefer watching over new ones mostly because they actually gave a shit about pacing and giving things the space to breath.

But it's hard to build a lot of quality into quiet frames, and easy to dump a lot of cheap action everywhere.

Probably why I enjoyed Bladerunner 2049 so much. It's a modern film but it's set up like an old one, with a huge amount of the story presented in ways besides extended action sequences and substituting excessive dialogue for actual content. There are a couple sequences in there which I find utterly spooky because they so convincingly look like they were shot in the style of a different decade.

A lot of Tarantino films feel like this - sort of antoquated film techniques and pacing. I appreciate it a great deal

Bobble

Well speaking of old movies, way back four days ago I saw one called Black Panther, and it turns out a whole lot more people saw it this weekend, because it cracked the top five for best domestic weekends all time.

So that's pretty cool.

Jacobkosh

I was born in 1979 and black and white was a hard barrier for me when I was very young but I started crossing it at probably age 9 or 10, whenever my family got cable. I became really fond of the I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Superman, Dragnet, and Twilight Zone reruns on Nick at Nite and then in high school there was the double whammy of the 1970s revival as well as the rise of Tarantino, who was of course hugely influenced by the 70s himself, and that led me and my friends into blaxploitation, funk music, old martial arts movies and so forth. It all seemed a lot more interesting than listening to Dave Matthews, anyway.

So the idea that looking back beyond your childhood is this weird alien thing is, itself, weird and alien to me. If I had to construct my identity out of only what was close to hand in the suburbs in 1994 I would be a crazy person.

wandering

I saw a screening of Passion of Joan of Arc, with a new score performed by a live orchestra and choir, in a historic church.

It was awesome

Dizzy D

Heh, born in 1978 and we only had a B&W TV till the mid 90s, so I never noticed whether a movie was meant to be B&W or not. (Hell, my brain just seemed to fill in colours by itself, though it stopped doing that once I got used to colour TV.)

Sadgasm

Jacobkosh wrote: »

I was born in 1979 and black and white was a hard barrier for me when I was very young but I started crossing it at probably age 9 or 10, whenever my family got cable. I became really fond of the I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Superman, Dragnet, and Twilight Zone reruns on Nick at Nite and then in high school there was the double whammy of the 1970s revival as well as the rise of Tarantino, who was of course hugely influenced by the 70s himself, and that led me and my friends into blaxploitation, funk music, old martial arts movies and so forth. It all seemed a lot more interesting than listening to Dave Matthews, anyway.

So the idea that looking back beyond your childhood is this weird alien thing is, itself, weird and alien to me. If I had to construct my identity out of only what was close to hand in the suburbs in 1994 I would be a crazy person.

Yeah, but old tv shows are more entertaining than old movies for some reason. Might be because the runtime is shorter.

Sadgasm

wandering wrote: »

I saw a screening of Passion of Joan of Arc, with a new score performed by a live orchestra and choir, in a historic church.

It was awesome

That silent movie? You know that one was lost until a copy turned up in an insane asylum in Norway for some reason